mutantlittleman

I'll add my two cents for what it's worth. Ran into this same issue and found I had to unplug the cable for it to register on the screen.

Yeah thats exactly what I did, gave it a thorough cleaning all over. That would be great thanks, I've got Splinter Cell and just found a copy of Mech Assault but the platinum hits version.

Ok so I'm gonna start tearing into the consoles to replace the caps, as I'm still waiting for my other things to get here. For the 1.1 can I just straight up remove the clock cap and then flash it or should I wait to flash first and then remove it? Do you have a link or details on that other method you were talking about?

Thanks for the reply Dave Is the exploit the same as the splinter cell one? I don't have those other games but SC was in with the bundle that came with the consoles. If so I'll definately look into that one as it seems a little easier to do. I assume then that after that's done you use an install disc like Hexen? The drive I'm looking at is a Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 specifically, I've heard good reviews about this one. For the chip are those the Aladdin ones I've seen on like Amazon? I'm pretty good with soldering so don't think I'd have any problems doing that.

Hello everyone I've recently reacquired a couple OG Xbox's and about 60 games to get back into some of my favorites. Along the way I've always wanted to mod one of these guys and never had the chance so figured now is as good a time as ever. I've modded/hacked other systems but never a XBOX. I pulled the first one apart to check and see how clean or dirty it was and surprised that it was in pretty good shape very little dust sitting on the mobo, psu and fans. Taking a look at the resources here and other places, I've determined that its a 1.1 board and has a leaking clock cap which I'm going to remove, it also has 2 leaking caps but still turns on without any issues noticed. I'm wanting to flash this guy but am having some trouble in tracking down 100% correct info, my plan is to fix the caps, clean up the board, redo the paste on the gpu and cpu, and upgrade the HDD to 2tb so I can rip and/or download more games to it without the disc drive as it sticks a lot and only opens 1 out of 4 times. I figure I'll need to softmod it first so then I can Tsop flash the bios but that's where I get lost in which one I'll need. The second one was obviously not so well taken care of heavy amounts of dust and debris all over. This one is a 1.6 board and doesn't boot but that is due to mutliple bulging caps. I'd like to do the same thing with this one if I can as it will be donated to an autistic boy who loves gaming. I know the 1.6 can't be tsop flashed but can I get a work around to putting in a larger drive with just a softmod? Any help is appreciated. Thanks